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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261645 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > When talking to APIs with max-length fields; fixed-width data formats; > database columns; etc. (Of course in some of those you really want a `string-limit-to-octets-after-encoding-but-shortening-by-characters' function (which is something I've missed (and implemented a couple of times)), but it depends.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no